On 4/5/01 10:33 AM, I wrote:
> First reports on MacScrpt, from people using AS 1.4.3 (OS 9.0.4) and AS
> 1.1 (OS 7.5.5) show that 'running' just compiles as an undefined variable
> and errors as such when run, even in a Finder tell block.
>
> On the other hand, there are two Scripting Additions: "Is Application
> Running 1.0.0" and "RunningApps 1.0", which have the term 'running'?
> Do/did you have one of those installed?
>
> Now I'm beginning to suspect that 'running' is a new term in the Finder
> for AS 1.6, and is actually there for the new Script Runner in OS X, where
> it will have a different meaning.
Nope. It turns out that in 1.6 (and 1.5.5 as well, I believe: OS 9.1), there
is a new application property:
execution state -- starting up/running/rebuilding
desktop/copying/restarting/quitting [r/o] -- the current execution state of
the Finder
That's where 'running' is defined. Since 'running' is something that only
refers to the application property 'execution state', it only gives 'true'
there but will compile anywhere in a Finder tell block, and give false as a
result for any other Finder property. (you can try the sane sort of thing
within Entourage with a misplaced application keyword:
if account of message 1 of in box folder is high then
set x to true
else
set x to false
end if
-- false
'high' belongs only to 'priority', not to account'. But _don't_ try this
with 'leave on server': that returns 'true'! (It's a bug.)
So that's how 'running' should now behave in a Finder tell block. It does
now supercede any osax term 'running' within a Finder tell block, just as
(annoyingly) Entourage's 'file' term supercedes AppleScript's file term, let
alone any osax, within an Entourage block.
So you can still use 'running' as you're accustomed to _outside_ a Finder
block if you still have the osax installed, as I showed in the last email,
or use the 'process' script I first gave you _inside_ a Finder block,
whichever you prefer.
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Paul Berkowitz
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